Mobb Deep - Drop A Gem On 'Em

[DR. JEK]

But you don't know me when the album couldn't tell ya

How many niggas pray that Chino is a failure?

Still have lipstick on your back if Suge didn't bailed ya

Break your glass jaw, leavin you signin like Mahaila

Approach this, watch the east coast get sick and approach this, My grip tight like roach clips, While I roast 2pac whole, Promote this, shirt blood soakin, gettin it opened

Where you from anyway? LA? Oakland? Hobokan?

I'm God manifested on earth, You out of bounds, it wasn't no criminal county and records from digital underground

Nigga You ain't never ever seen drama, Fuck you and your dope fiend mama

Niggas is shady, I shed ya california blood and kill Brenda's baby

Get around these nuts niggas don't play me

Recognize my face and turn that ass in the back of a Mercedes that's full laced like a Madonna wardrobe in the 80's

Pinning lyrically, uh, provocative, 2pacalypse battling me is preposterous

Chino XL....

Watch these excuses...lol

so damn, no excuses....good shyt...lol

I barely heard that shit two years ago so im guessing it was too under the radar to get props at the time.

It was out, he named names and even if he didnt most people shouldve got who he was talking about...

Musta been on one of them 5 Grand Doo Wop special from the hundred mixtapes he tryna convince existed outside the Big Apples borders that killed AEOM and the Chronic. Lol

Look...Nobody knew about those bars you posted outside of NY and im not hating when I say that. I actually like Chino XL and the diss was pretty scathing all things considered but come on bruh. The diss wasn't mainstream enough to rock any boats in the sea.

But you don't know me when the album couldn't tell ya

How many niggas pray that Chino is a failure?

Still have lipstick on your back if Suge didn't bailed ya

Break your glass jaw, leavin you signin like Mahaila

Approach this, watch the east coast get sick and approach this, My grip tight like roach clips, While I roast 2pac whole, Promote this, shirt blood soakin, gettin it opened

Where you from anyway? LA? Oakland? Hobokan?

I'm God manifested on earth, You out of bounds, it wasn't no criminal county and records from digital underground

Nigga You ain't never ever seen drama, Fuck you and your dope fiend mama

Niggas is shady, I shed ya california blood and kill Brenda's baby

Get around these nuts niggas don't play me

Recognize my face and turn that ass in the back of a Mercedes that's full laced like a Madonna wardrobe in the 80's

Pinning lyrically, uh, provocative, 2pacalypse battling me is preposterous

Chino XL....

Watch these excuses...lol

so damn, no excuses....good shyt...lol

I barely heard that shit two years ago so im guessing it was too under the radar to get props at the time.

It was out, he named names and even if he didnt most people shouldve got who he was talking about...

Musta been on one of them 5 Grand Doo Wop special from the hundred mixtapes he tryna convince existed outside the Big Apples borders that killed AEOM and the Chronic. Lol

Look...Nobody knew about those bars you posted outside of NY and im not hating when I say that. I actually like Chino XL and the diss was pretty scathing all things considered but come on bruh. The diss wasn't mainstream enough to rock any boats in the sea.

Doesnt matter who knew about that shyt, as long as his target knew about it....Those mixtapes that @5grand speak of floated around the eastcoast from like North Carolina to Maine my dude...Dont try that only in New York shyt....

All the East/West beef proved is that The West Coast was a hick town with one record label. They had an outdated format, an outdated medium and they were operating on an outdated paradigm. When the beef was over The West didn't know what happened. Its like getting in a fight and getting knocked unconscious and waking up in the hospital. You remember everything that happened up until you got knocked out but you don't know what happened in between the time you got in a few punches and waking up in the hospital.

Death Row had;

The Chronic

Doggystyle

Murder Was The Case Soundtrack

Dogg Food

All Eyes On ME

The Doggfather

^^^They thought they were winning

DJ Doo Wop – 1/1/91 (Kid Capri Diss Tape)

DJ Doo Wop – 1/4/91

DJ Doo Wop – 2/11

DJ Doo Wop – 8/27/93

DJ Doo Wop – 10/26/91

DJ Doo Wop – 12-25

DJ Doo Wop – 95 Live

DJ Doo Wop – 95 Live Pt. 2

DJ Doo Wop – A Bronx Tale

DJ Doo Wop – Bad Boy Vol. 2

DJ Doo Wop – Birthday Jam

DJ Doo Wop – Bounce Squad Meets Danny Dan The Beatman

DJ Doo Wop – Coolout ’93

DJ Doo Wop – Coolout ’94

DJ Doo Wop – Coolout ’95

DJ Doo Wop – Fall Flava ’94

DJ Doo Wop – F.E.D.S Double Tape

DJ Doo Wop – Flashback

DJ Doo Wop – Gangasta’s Paradise

DJ Doo Wop – Gangasta’s Paradise 2

DJ Doo Wop – Gangasta’s Paradise 3

DJ Doo Wop – Ill Favors

DJ Doo Wop – Live at Mecca

DJ Doo Wop – Live in VA

DJ Doo Wop – Old School 5/1/92

DJ Doo Wop – Old School 1/4/91

DJ Doo Wop – Old School 6/14

DJ Doo Wop – Original Flavor ’95

DJ Doo Wop – Sandy’s Birthday

DJ Doo Wop – Spring 1

DJ Doo Wop – Spring 2

DJ Doo Wop – Spring Break ’92

DJ Doo Wop – Summer Jam ’93

DJ Doo Wop – Summer Jam ’94

DJ Doo Wop – Summer Jam ’96

DJ Doo Wop – Tape #3

DJ Doo Wop – Tape #4

DJ Doo Wop – Tape #5

DJ Doo Wop – The New Testament

DJ Doo Wop – Unplugged

DJ Doo Wop – Winter 92

DJ Doo Wop – Winter Cool Out ’95

DJ Doo Wop – Wopduizm

DJ Doo Wop – Wopduizm Pt. 2

DJ Doo Wop – Xmas Jams ’93

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Funkmaster Flex – Face Off

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Kay Slay – R&B Ecstacy

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Kay Slay – Double Drama

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Kool Kirk – Money Train

DJ Doo Wop & DJ S&S – 3/30/91 Live Block Party

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Tony Touch – Diaz Brothers

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Tony Touch – Diaz Brothers: 2 For 5

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Tony Touch – Diaz Brothers Live In Japan

^^^And those are just Doo Wop tapes, there was also S&S, Kid Capri, Funkmaster Flex, Ron G, DJ Clue, Tony Touch, etc.

Lmao @ THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE WINNING are you fuckin serious? Your hate for westcoast legendary music is that deep? BTW you forgot E 40 was making his mark, we had the Likwid Crew also, we Had Ice Cube and above the Law, underground dope cats likr Rass Kass and Dialated People's, Death Row was just at the for front but that's definately not all the west had.

And You're disqualified from the convo just attempting to slide corny ass Flex Hogan in there like he's fuckin wit somebody. What artist was killing those tape? Please dont come back and say Jeru the damager or somebody. Foh

So instead of buying All Eyes on me I shoulda Bought a Doo wop tape with Jeru, Chino Xl's one verse and maybe if Im lucky a lost Prodigy verse that God claim was suppose to crack the west coast and some complimentary Sean Jean perfume.

No thanks bruh!! Keep ya mixtapes filled with nobodies and ya toilet water cologne, im good. We didn't need Doo Wop we had Sway & king Tech Saturday nights at midnight.

 

[LcnsdbyROYALTY]

Too many casual Hip Hop fans on this forum

Cuz we never heard a Doo Wop tape??

 

[a_list]

Yo, why dont you take surveys before you utter only in NY if you dont know...lol...Anyways cant speak for Chi or Texas, but Atl, they were floating around...The homey that went to Morris Brown during that time said people from up north would have them and introduced them to cats that fucked with up north rappers...Probably was like that in other places.....Remember the dude from Luda's group, I think it was I 20 saying that they fucked with the mixtapes....

Fine yall win

Please post the tracklistings that's better than the chronic. Been tryna get proof of this for the last 3 post.

Whoa, sun...I didnt say nothing like that, you take that shyt up with @5grand ....Next time ask questions if you don't know....Mixtapes were heavy b, and not only in Ny, Not only by those who want to be like Ny....Lol ya next excuse wouldve been the djs put guns to peoples heads and made them listen....

But you don't know me when the album couldn't tell ya

How many niggas pray that Chino is a failure?

Still have lipstick on your back if Suge didn't bailed ya

Break your glass jaw, leavin you signin like Mahaila

Approach this, watch the east coast get sick and approach this, My grip tight like roach clips, While I roast 2pac whole, Promote this, shirt blood soakin, gettin it opened

Where you from anyway? LA? Oakland? Hobokan?

I'm God manifested on earth, You out of bounds, it wasn't no criminal county and records from digital underground

Nigga You ain't never ever seen drama, Fuck you and your dope fiend mama

Niggas is shady, I shed ya california blood and kill Brenda's baby

Get around these nuts niggas don't play me

Recognize my face and turn that ass in the back of a Mercedes that's full laced like a Madonna wardrobe in the 80's

Pinning lyrically, uh, provocative, 2pacalypse battling me is preposterous

Chino XL....

Watch these excuses...lol

so damn, no excuses....good shyt...lol

I barely heard that shit two years ago so im guessing it was too under the radar to get props at the time.

It was out, he named names and even if he didnt most people shouldve got who he was talking about...

Musta been on one of them 5 Grand Doo Wop special from the hundred mixtapes he tryna convince existed outside the Big Apples borders that killed AEOM and the Chronic. Lol

Look...Nobody knew about those bars you posted outside of NY and im not hating when I say that. I actually like Chino XL and the diss was pretty scathing all things considered but come on bruh. The diss wasn't mainstream enough to rock any boats in the sea.

But you don't know me when the album couldn't tell ya

How many niggas pray that Chino is a failure?

Still have lipstick on your back if Suge didn't bailed ya

Break your glass jaw, leavin you signin like Mahaila

Approach this, watch the east coast get sick and approach this, My grip tight like roach clips, While I roast 2pac whole, Promote this, shirt blood soakin, gettin it opened

Where you from anyway? LA? Oakland? Hobokan?

I'm God manifested on earth, You out of bounds, it wasn't no criminal county and records from digital underground

Nigga You ain't never ever seen drama, Fuck you and your dope fiend mama

Niggas is shady, I shed ya california blood and kill Brenda's baby

Get around these nuts niggas don't play me

Recognize my face and turn that ass in the back of a Mercedes that's full laced like a Madonna wardrobe in the 80's

Pinning lyrically, uh, provocative, 2pacalypse battling me is preposterous

Chino XL....

Watch these excuses...lol

so damn, no excuses....good shyt...lol

I barely heard that shit two years ago so im guessing it was too under the radar to get props at the time.

It was out, he named names and even if he didnt most people shouldve got who he was talking about...

Musta been on one of them 5 Grand Doo Wop special from the hundred mixtapes he tryna convince existed outside the Big Apples borders that killed AEOM and the Chronic. Lol

Look...Nobody knew about those bars you posted outside of NY and im not hating when I say that. I actually like Chino XL and the diss was pretty scathing all things considered but come on bruh. The diss wasn't mainstream enough to rock any boats in the sea.

Doesnt matter who knew about that shyt, as long as his target knew about it....Those mixtapes that @5grand speak of floated around the eastcoast from like North Carolina to Maine my dude...Dont try that only in New York shyt....

All the East/West beef proved is that The West Coast was a hick town with one record label. They had an outdated format, an outdated medium and they were operating on an outdated paradigm. When the beef was over The West didn't know what happened. Its like getting in a fight and getting knocked unconscious and waking up in the hospital. You remember everything that happened up until you got knocked out but you don't know what happened in between the time you got in a few punches and waking up in the hospital.

Death Row had;

The Chronic

Doggystyle

Murder Was The Case Soundtrack

Dogg Food

All Eyes On ME

The Doggfather

^^^They thought they were winning

DJ Doo Wop – 1/1/91 (Kid Capri Diss Tape)

DJ Doo Wop – 1/4/91

DJ Doo Wop – 2/11

DJ Doo Wop – 8/27/93

DJ Doo Wop – 10/26/91

DJ Doo Wop – 12-25

DJ Doo Wop – 95 Live

DJ Doo Wop – 95 Live Pt. 2

DJ Doo Wop – A Bronx Tale

DJ Doo Wop – Bad Boy Vol. 2

DJ Doo Wop – Birthday Jam

DJ Doo Wop – Bounce Squad Meets Danny Dan The Beatman

DJ Doo Wop – Coolout ’93

DJ Doo Wop – Coolout ’94

DJ Doo Wop – Coolout ’95

DJ Doo Wop – Fall Flava ’94

DJ Doo Wop – F.E.D.S Double Tape

DJ Doo Wop – Flashback

DJ Doo Wop – Gangasta’s Paradise

DJ Doo Wop – Gangasta’s Paradise 2

DJ Doo Wop – Gangasta’s Paradise 3

DJ Doo Wop – Ill Favors

DJ Doo Wop – Live at Mecca

DJ Doo Wop – Live in VA

DJ Doo Wop – Old School 5/1/92

DJ Doo Wop – Old School 1/4/91

DJ Doo Wop – Old School 6/14

DJ Doo Wop – Original Flavor ’95

DJ Doo Wop – Sandy’s Birthday

DJ Doo Wop – Spring 1

DJ Doo Wop – Spring 2

DJ Doo Wop – Spring Break ’92

DJ Doo Wop – Summer Jam ’93

DJ Doo Wop – Summer Jam ’94

DJ Doo Wop – Summer Jam ’96

DJ Doo Wop – Tape #3

DJ Doo Wop – Tape #4

DJ Doo Wop – Tape #5

DJ Doo Wop – The New Testament

DJ Doo Wop – Unplugged

DJ Doo Wop – Winter 92

DJ Doo Wop – Winter Cool Out ’95

DJ Doo Wop – Wopduizm

DJ Doo Wop – Wopduizm Pt. 2

DJ Doo Wop – Xmas Jams ’93

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Funkmaster Flex – Face Off

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Kay Slay – R&B Ecstacy

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Kay Slay – Double Drama

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Kool Kirk – Money Train

DJ Doo Wop & DJ S&S – 3/30/91 Live Block Party

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Tony Touch – Diaz Brothers

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Tony Touch – Diaz Brothers: 2 For 5

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Tony Touch – Diaz Brothers Live In Japan

^^^And those are just Doo Wop tapes, there was also S&S, Kid Capri, Funkmaster Flex, Ron G, DJ Clue, Tony Touch, etc.

I had every one of those tapes and I'm from the South. Doo Wop, S&S and a Clue tapes were like gold back then everyone was on them.

 

[DR. JEK]

Yo, why dont you take surveys before you utter only in NY if you dont know...lol...Anyways cant speak for Chi or Texas, but Atl, they were floating around...The homey that went to Morris Brown during that time said people from up north would have them and introduced them to cats that fucked with up north rappers...Probably was like that in other places.....Remember the dude from Luda's group, I think it was I 20 saying that they fucked with the mixtapes....

Fine yall win

Please post the tracklistings that's better than the chronic. Been tryna get proof of this for the last 3 post.

Whoa, sun...I didnt say nothing like that, you take that shyt up with @5grand ....Next time ask questions if you don't know....Mixtapes were heavy b, and not only in Ny, Not only by those who want to be like Ny....Lol ya next excuse wouldve been the djs put guns to peoples heads and made them listen....

But you don't know me when the album couldn't tell ya

How many niggas pray that Chino is a failure?

Still have lipstick on your back if Suge didn't bailed ya

Break your glass jaw, leavin you signin like Mahaila

Approach this, watch the east coast get sick and approach this, My grip tight like roach clips, While I roast 2pac whole, Promote this, shirt blood soakin, gettin it opened

Where you from anyway? LA? Oakland? Hobokan?

I'm God manifested on earth, You out of bounds, it wasn't no criminal county and records from digital underground

Nigga You ain't never ever seen drama, Fuck you and your dope fiend mama

Niggas is shady, I shed ya california blood and kill Brenda's baby

Get around these nuts niggas don't play me

Recognize my face and turn that ass in the back of a Mercedes that's full laced like a Madonna wardrobe in the 80's

Pinning lyrically, uh, provocative, 2pacalypse battling me is preposterous

Chino XL....

Watch these excuses...lol

so damn, no excuses....good shyt...lol

I barely heard that shit two years ago so im guessing it was too under the radar to get props at the time.

It was out, he named names and even if he didnt most people shouldve got who he was talking about...

Musta been on one of them 5 Grand Doo Wop special from the hundred mixtapes he tryna convince existed outside the Big Apples borders that killed AEOM and the Chronic. Lol

Look...Nobody knew about those bars you posted outside of NY and im not hating when I say that. I actually like Chino XL and the diss was pretty scathing all things considered but come on bruh. The diss wasn't mainstream enough to rock any boats in the sea.

But you don't know me when the album couldn't tell ya

How many niggas pray that Chino is a failure?

Still have lipstick on your back if Suge didn't bailed ya

Break your glass jaw, leavin you signin like Mahaila

Approach this, watch the east coast get sick and approach this, My grip tight like roach clips, While I roast 2pac whole, Promote this, shirt blood soakin, gettin it opened

Where you from anyway? LA? Oakland? Hobokan?

I'm God manifested on earth, You out of bounds, it wasn't no criminal county and records from digital underground

Nigga You ain't never ever seen drama, Fuck you and your dope fiend mama

Niggas is shady, I shed ya california blood and kill Brenda's baby

Get around these nuts niggas don't play me

Recognize my face and turn that ass in the back of a Mercedes that's full laced like a Madonna wardrobe in the 80's

Pinning lyrically, uh, provocative, 2pacalypse battling me is preposterous

Chino XL....

Watch these excuses...lol

so damn, no excuses....good shyt...lol

I barely heard that shit two years ago so im guessing it was too under the radar to get props at the time.

It was out, he named names and even if he didnt most people shouldve got who he was talking about...

Musta been on one of them 5 Grand Doo Wop special from the hundred mixtapes he tryna convince existed outside the Big Apples borders that killed AEOM and the Chronic. Lol

Look...Nobody knew about those bars you posted outside of NY and im not hating when I say that. I actually like Chino XL and the diss was pretty scathing all things considered but come on bruh. The diss wasn't mainstream enough to rock any boats in the sea.

Doesnt matter who knew about that shyt, as long as his target knew about it....Those mixtapes that @5grand speak of floated around the eastcoast from like North Carolina to Maine my dude...Dont try that only in New York shyt....

All the East/West beef proved is that The West Coast was a hick town with one record label. They had an outdated format, an outdated medium and they were operating on an outdated paradigm. When the beef was over The West didn't know what happened. Its like getting in a fight and getting knocked unconscious and waking up in the hospital. You remember everything that happened up until you got knocked out but you don't know what happened in between the time you got in a few punches and waking up in the hospital.

Death Row had;

The Chronic

Doggystyle

Murder Was The Case Soundtrack

Dogg Food

All Eyes On ME

The Doggfather

^^^They thought they were winning

DJ Doo Wop – 1/1/91 (Kid Capri Diss Tape)

DJ Doo Wop – 1/4/91

DJ Doo Wop – 2/11

DJ Doo Wop – 8/27/93

DJ Doo Wop – 10/26/91

DJ Doo Wop – 12-25

DJ Doo Wop – 95 Live

DJ Doo Wop – 95 Live Pt. 2

DJ Doo Wop – A Bronx Tale

DJ Doo Wop – Bad Boy Vol. 2

DJ Doo Wop – Birthday Jam

DJ Doo Wop – Bounce Squad Meets Danny Dan The Beatman

DJ Doo Wop – Coolout ’93

DJ Doo Wop – Coolout ’94

DJ Doo Wop – Coolout ’95

DJ Doo Wop – Fall Flava ’94

DJ Doo Wop – F.E.D.S Double Tape

DJ Doo Wop – Flashback

DJ Doo Wop – Gangasta’s Paradise

DJ Doo Wop – Gangasta’s Paradise 2

DJ Doo Wop – Gangasta’s Paradise 3

DJ Doo Wop – Ill Favors

DJ Doo Wop – Live at Mecca

DJ Doo Wop – Live in VA

DJ Doo Wop – Old School 5/1/92

DJ Doo Wop – Old School 1/4/91

DJ Doo Wop – Old School 6/14

DJ Doo Wop – Original Flavor ’95

DJ Doo Wop – Sandy’s Birthday

DJ Doo Wop – Spring 1

DJ Doo Wop – Spring 2

DJ Doo Wop – Spring Break ’92

DJ Doo Wop – Summer Jam ’93

DJ Doo Wop – Summer Jam ’94

DJ Doo Wop – Summer Jam ’96

DJ Doo Wop – Tape #3

DJ Doo Wop – Tape #4

DJ Doo Wop – Tape #5

DJ Doo Wop – The New Testament

DJ Doo Wop – Unplugged

DJ Doo Wop – Winter 92

DJ Doo Wop – Winter Cool Out ’95

DJ Doo Wop – Wopduizm

DJ Doo Wop – Wopduizm Pt. 2

DJ Doo Wop – Xmas Jams ’93

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Funkmaster Flex – Face Off

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Kay Slay – R&B Ecstacy

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Kay Slay – Double Drama

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Kool Kirk – Money Train

DJ Doo Wop & DJ S&S – 3/30/91 Live Block Party

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Tony Touch – Diaz Brothers

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Tony Touch – Diaz Brothers: 2 For 5

DJ Doo Wop & DJ Tony Touch – Diaz Brothers Live In Japan

^^^And those are just Doo Wop tapes, there was also S&S, Kid Capri, Funkmaster Flex, Ron G, DJ Clue, Tony Touch, etc.

I had every one of those tapes and I'm from the South. Doo Wop, S&S and a Clue tapes were like gold back then everyone was on them.

Just because your region had them dont mean everybody had access all over the country.

But you right I'll just keep getting at 5 Grand about it. We need to get back to the topic tho what is it again? Oh yeah...Pee's mythical ether verse and Puff Daddy's old hot dog water perfume.

 

[a_list]

Where did I say that everybody had access to them?...On the flip, Just because you didnt hear of them doesnt mean that they were only popping in Ny...You in this thread speaking with a lot of conviction, but didnt have a clue as to what was going on....Next time speak what you know...You the type to say some shyt like The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill and The Score sold their like 20 million copies only in NY...lol

Yo, I'm done...@5grand Bottom of the 9th 1 out nobody on...close this nigga out...

 

[mackanaven]

MOBBIN DEEP!

 

[kingblaze84]

Which lines in this song are a Tupac diss?

You casper, you yell my name

Thats only givin me props

Plus the fans that you got, wonderin whats got you hot

Its too not, knocked out the box and got rocked

Got raped on the Island, you officially got

Kick that thug shit, Vibe magazine on some love shit

These upstate cats be leary of you

Yeddy niggas wit gats plus the walls on they backs

Rikers Island flashback of the house you got scuffed it in

You would think you gettin your head shot was enough but then

Now you wanna got at my team,

You must of been drunk when you wrote that shit

Too bad you had to did it to your own self

My rebellion, I retaliate, I had the whole New York state

Aimin at your face

At the gate, bottom line of top soon as you came through

Shot through, don't even know the half of my crew

I got a hundred strong arm niggas ready to rock the shit

Clocks tick, your days are numbered in low digits

Its terrodome, when you see my click you need to run behind shit

You gotta gat you betta find it

And use that shit think fast and get reminded

Of robberies in Manhattan you knew what happened

60 g's and one for gun clappin

Who Shot Ya? You'd probably scream louder than an opera

New York gotcha, now you wanna use my mob as a crutch

What makes you think you cant get bucked again

Once again, back in the house once again

I never believed the Rikers Island rumors but those lines still sound cold to this day.

 

[5 Grand]

Lmao @ THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE WINNING are you fuckin serious? Your hate for westcoast legendary music is that deep? BTW you forgot E 40 was making his mark, we had the Likwid Crew also, we Had Ice Cube and above the Law, underground dope cats likr Rass Kass and Dialated People's, Death Row was just at the for front but that's definately not all the west had.

And You're disqualified from the convo just attempting to slide corny ass Flex Hogan in there like he's fuckin wit somebody. What artist was killing those tape? Please dont come back and say Jeru the damager or somebody. Foh

So instead of buying All Eyes on me I shoulda Bought a Doo wop tape with Jeru, Chino Xl's one verse and maybe if Im lucky a lost Prodigy verse that God claim was suppose to crack the west coast and some complimentary Sean Jean perfume.

No thanks bruh!! Keep ya mixtapes filled with nobodies and ya toilet water cologne, im good. We didn't need Doo Wop we had Sway & king Tech Saturday nights at midnight.

Here's the thing, the mix tapes that were coming out in the mid 90s would have the tracks on All Eyes On Me before the album dropped. If All Eyes On Me was released on February 13, 1996, if you bought a mixtape at the end of January you'd have 3 or 4 songs from All Eyes On Me.

California was a hick town compared to New York. Mixtape DJs in New York were releasing West Coast Hip Hop faster than the West Coast labels. I remember walking down 125th st and seeing all the Mackevelli posthumous albums on CD-Rs.

My point is that the mixtape DJs in New York were getting material weeks, if not months, before it was officially released.

You guys are comparing an album like Doggystyle or All Eyes On Me to a mixtape (or maybe I'm the one making the comparison) but the mix tapes had the album cuts from Doggystyle and All Eyes On Me months prior to those albums release.

Here's a tape I remember bumping at the Northeastern University dorms in the winter of 1994, smoking blunts and building with the Gods;

Spring One - Doo Wop
http://www.mediafire.com/download/8i7i6xaz9f5x810/Doo+Wop+-+Spring+1.rar

You've gone stark raving mad if you don't think this tape is better than anything Death Row ever released.

 

[moyo]

I don't give a damn how many mix tapes y'all dropped didn't none of that shit bang as hard as any album Death row dropped in the 90's. Regardless to how y'all wanna re-write history, Drop a gem on em and whatever mixtape y'all dropped didn't have the global and cultural impact that Hit em up or anything that Pac did in 1996. Point blank period.

 

[mackanaven]

prodigy's book was good too

 

[5 Grand]

I don't give a damn how many mix tapes y'all dropped didn't none of that shit bang as hard as any album Death row dropped in the 90's. Regardless to how y'all wanna re-write history, Drop a gem on em and whatever mixtape y'all dropped didn't have the global and cultural impact that Hit em up or anything that Pac did in 1996. Point blank period.

Yeah but you guys (the other 47 states) didn't even know what was going on in the Tri-State. And people in the Tri-State didn't know or care what was coming out on Death Row or the other 47 states.

You can rep your set, throw up gang signs and crip walk all you want, but cats in New York didn't care about the West Coast. If ya'll dropped something hot it would make a mixtape, otherwise the Tri-state had its own culture and buying West Coast rap albums wasn't something that we did.

That's the ether that burns so slow; The fact that the New York didn't care about the West Coast. Its not like a New York nigga would buy a West Coast album and not like it, its more like a New York Nigga would pick up a copy of The Source and see some West Coast cat with a perm and think 'what the fuck?' The West wanted to go back and forth and make diss records while New York rappers had their own culture that the West didn't even know about. A New York nigga would go to 125th st and cop some mix tapes while everybody in the other states are waiting in line at Sam Goody or Tower Records on a Monday night waiting for 12:01am to be the first person to buy a retail album.

^^^ @ the bolded. If you didn't catch that then you weren't there.

 

[moyo]

I'm not even from the west, I'm from the south. But that's that arrogant bullshit attitude that makes people say fuck New York. Trust me, as much as y'all didn't care about anything coming from the other 47 states, we weren't concerned about shit coming from New York. From our vantage point Mobb deep and the rest of the niggas from NY got sonned during that shit, and all the mixtapes and unreleased erased mythical verses won't change our minds on that.

 

[5 Grand]

I'm not even from the west, I'm from the south. But that's that arrogant bullshit attitude that makes people say fuck New York. Trust me, as much as y'all didn't care about anything coming from the other 47 states, we weren't concerned about shit coming from New York. From our vantage point Mobb deep and the rest of the niggas from NY got sonned during that shit, and all the mixtapes and unreleased erased mythical verses won't change our minds on that.

@ the bolded. But from New York's vantage point mixtape DJs were dropping freestyles and exclusive material 2 months before it was officially released to the radio, video and retail channels. There's stuff on those mix tapes that to this day have never been officially released (e.g. Doo Wop's 95 Live part 1 and part 2 mix tapes)

Once you put retail sales in the equation then it may have appeared as though Death Row was outselling the best New York artists, until Bad Boy sold 30 million units in 1997 alone;

• Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down (single) – Puff Daddy & Ma$e 4X Platinum

• Hypnotize (single) – Notorious B.I.G. – Platinum

• I’ll Be Missing You (single) – Puff Daddy & The Family – 3X Platinum

• Its All About The Benjamins (single) – Puff Daddy & The Family - Platinum

• Been Around The World (single) – Puff Daddy & The Family– 2X Platinum

• Life After Death (album) – Notorious B.I.G. 10X Platinum

• No Way Out (album) – Puff Daddy & The Family – 7X Platinum

• Harlem World (album) – Ma$e – 4X Platinum

 

[_God_]

I'm not even from the west, I'm from the south. But that's that arrogant bullshit attitude that makes people say fuck New York. Trust me, as much as y'all didn't care about anything coming from the other 47 states, we weren't concerned about shit coming from New York. From our vantage point Mobb deep and the rest of the niggas from NY got sonned during that shit, and all the mixtapes and unreleased erased mythical verses won't change our minds on that.

Your from the southeast?

 

[moyo]

What does that have to do with anything??? I know geography I know where I'm from bruh. Lol

 

[NoCompetition]

Unfortunately for NY when Pac went there some people hated and shot him. Whereas he got love everywhere else he went. He was out in the west, in the South, all over. And the West was the ones who bailed him out and took him in. He was good in the South too and other regions. A cautionary tale I guess like show love to rappers when they come to your city. Also I was never feeling any "diss" after he was gone and I know many others felt the same way. People really didnt get the chance to respond because he was gone thats part of it because disses after he was gone wasnt hittin it is what it is.

 

[moyo]

I'm not even from the west, I'm from the south. But that's that arrogant bullshit attitude that makes people say fuck New York. Trust me, as much as y'all didn't care about anything coming from the other 47 states, we weren't concerned about shit coming from New York. From our vantage point Mobb deep and the rest of the niggas from NY got sonned during that shit, and all the mixtapes and unreleased erased mythical verses won't change our minds on that.

Your from the southeast?

Yeah Im from Mississippi so technically yes I am. Now as I said earlier, I love hip hop all regions but I was a major Death row fan and I'm a realist and from what I saw Pac and the west got the better of the east in that shit. Ain't no way Pac would have roasted me the way he roasted them cats and I wouldn't have responded in a major way. As a man if Prodigy did erase his original verse that's pussy, ain't no way I'm a let another grown ass man talk me out of responding after a nigga done clowned me and my debilitating affliction for the whole world to see.

 

[moyo]

And before one of you niggas try to bring up Pac getting shot and killed, that as far as we know was LA gangbangers killing pac for some gang shit that was happening out west. East coast cats didn't have shit to do wit that.

 

[_God_]

I'm not even from the west, I'm from the south. But that's that arrogant bullshit attitude that makes people say fuck New York. Trust me, as much as y'all didn't care about anything coming from the other 47 states, we weren't concerned about shit coming from New York. From our vantage point Mobb deep and the rest of the niggas from NY got sonned during that shit, and all the mixtapes and unreleased erased mythical verses won't change our minds on that.

Your from the southeast?

Yeah Im from Mississippi so technically yes I am. Now as I said earlier, I love hip hop all regions but I was a major Death row fan and I'm a realist and from what I saw Pac and the west got the better of the east in that shit. Ain't no way Pac would have roasted me the way he roasted them cats and I wouldn't have responded in a major way. As a man if Prodigy did erase his original verse that's pussy, ain't no way I'm a let another grown ass man talk me out of responding after a nigga done clowned me and my debilitating affliction for the whole world to see.

I wanted to know what your exposure to Deathrow was

 

[hiphop12345]

Death Row had the rap game shook. They disrespected left and right and who from the east had the nerve to diss and name names? Tim Dog, that's it.

Death Row artist got their trailer shot up and didn't respond. My bad, they kick buildings down on green screen.